Post modernism Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Bible - PostmodernismCan you summarize the postmodern worldview in a few words (5) - correct answer -a reaction to the evils of modernism -views truth claims as political power plays -views truth is a social construct -ultimate knowledge is inaccessible -suspicious of metanarratives If "Postmodernism" means "after modernism" what is modernism - correct answer modernism is characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress, as well as ske...

This assignemnt includes; - The role of sociological perspectives in understanding society and health and social care provision - Functionalism’s contribution to the understanding of society - Functionalism’s contribution to the understanding of health and social care - Evaluation of the role of sociological perspectives in the understanding of society in relation to local health and social care provision - Marxism and Marxism’s contribution to the understanding of society - Marxi...

Gardner's ART THROUGH THE AGES 15th EDITION Ch. 30 Modernism and Postmodernism on Europe and America, 1945 to 1980 Postmodernism - correct answer A reaction against modernist formalism, seen as elitist. Far more encompassing and accepting than the more rigid confines of modernist practice, postmodernism offers something for everyone by accommodating a wide range of styles, subjects, and formats, from traditional easel painting to installation and from abstraction to illusionistic scenes. Postm...

Modernism vs. PostmodernismBricolage - correct answer construction or something constructed by using whatever materials happen to be available. Pastiche - correct answer a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work Appropriation - correct answer to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work High Art - correct answer Italian painting and sculpture dating from roughly 1490 to 1527, characterized by classicism, with a particular emphasis on form and balance. ...

PostmodernPostmodernism - correct answer The state, condition, or period subsequent to that which is modern; spec. in architecture, the arts, literature, politics, etc., any of various styles, concepts, or points of view involving a conscious departure from modernism, esp. when characterized by a rejection of ideology and theory in favour of a plurality of values and techniques. Peter Barry - correct answer Modernism was concerned with challenging and disregarding the 'fundamental elements'...

Unit 09 PostmodernismIn Postmodernism, what is prime reality--the really real? - correct answer Reality is socially constructed by those in power In Postmodernism, what is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us? - correct answer Subject to social interpretation by those in power In Postmodernism, what is a human being? - correct answer Creates own meaning/morality by those in power In Postmodernism, what happens to a person at death? - correct answer Cease to exist...

GRMN 2301 Inside Nazi Germany EXAM 1*What are the major tenets of Nazi thought? (also need to define them) - correct answer 1. Anti-Semitism 2. Lebensraum 3. Social Darwinism 4. Leadership Principle 5. Racial Hygiene 6. Individualism Anti-Semitism - correct answer 1. Religious/Old Christian Anti-Semitism: blamed Jews for the death of Jesus so wanted to hate them but also wanted to keep them around in case a Jesus situation happened again; based on FAITH (Jews were able to convert to ...

Postmodernism QuizWhat is postmodernism? - correct answer a reaction to modernism What are the 4 characteristics of postmodernism? - correct answer 1. rejection of meta narratives 2. subjective view of truth 3. deconstruction of literature mism about future What are the positives of postmodernism? - correct answer e and thoughtful approach to evaluating worldview are limits on our ability to know 3. recognizes person bias in interpretation 4. realistic view of future and human natu...

Modern Postmodern EraWhen does modernism and postmodernism begin and end - correct answer Modernism: Postmodernism: 1945- Present 6 major events in WWI - correct answer 1.Germany invades Belgium 2. Britain and France join forces to help stop the aggression 3. Use of poisonous gasses, artillery and trench warfare 4. 1917 communism begins in the Soviet Union 5. Many empires are gone ( like industrial Germany and Austria- Hungary.) 6.War ends with the Treat of Versailles Longest ruli...

naturalistic inquiry - ANSWER when researchers study real-world situations as they unfold naturally in a non-manipulative and non-controlling way holistic dimensions of community - ANSWER the subgroups in a group, how they think, how they interact, what kinds of agreements or norms are presen post-structuralism - ANSWER rejects universal truth, emphasizes difference,desconstruction, interpretation power of ideas over people postmodernism - ANSWER constructs self-imasge in opposition...